Deck Importing

"No more screen shooting decklists, or staring at a web page as you carefully build a deck, card by card. Trying—and sharing—a new decklist will be as simple as copy and paste!"

Deck Importing or Deck Sharing is a feature in Hearthstone, which allows decks to be easily shared with everyone using deck strings.

How it works

### Custom Mage6

# Class: Mage

# Format: Standard

# Year of the Dragon

#

# 1x (1) Arcane Breath

# 1x (1) Ray of Frost

# 1x (2) Acidic Swamp Ooze

# 1x (2) Frostbolt

# 1x (2) Zephrys the Great

# 1x (3) Arcane Intellect

# 1x (3) Frost Nova

# 1x (3) SN1P-SN4P

# 1x (4) Arcane Keysmith

# 1x (4) Azure Explorer

# 1x (4) Bone Wraith

# 1x (4) Fireball

# 1x (4) Polymorph

# 1x (4) Spellbreaker

# 1x (5) Cobalt Spellkin

# 1x (5) Malygos, Aspect of Magic

# 1x (5) Rolling Fireball

# 1x (5) Zilliax

# 1x (6) Blizzard

# 1x (6) Dragoncaster

# 1x (6) Khartut Defender

# 1x (6) Reno the Relicologist

# 1x (7) Flamestrike

# 1x (7) Luna's Pocket Galaxy

# 1x (7) Siamat

# 1x (8) Power of Creation

# 1x (8) Tortollan Pilgrim

# 1x (9) Alexstrasza

# 1x (9) Dragonqueen Alexstrasza

# 1x (10) Kalecgos

#

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#

# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

If your deck is already full, when you select the Hero portrait at the top of a deck list in the collection manager, you’ll see a Copy button. Press that button and your deck list will be copied to your clipboard. If you paste your deck list into a text document, it will look like this:

The highlighted code near the bottom contains all the deck information, making it easier to share a deck list with friends in chat or social media. When you go to create a new deck, Hearthstone will “know” when you’ve got a valid deck list on your clipboard, so you’ll be asked if you’d like to create a new deck with the one you’ve got copied, and it will build the deck based on the code. This can also be used for Tavern Brawl decks.

If you don’t have all the cards a deck requires, it works just like a deck recipe. Any cards you don’t already own will appear insubstantial and you can select them for suggested replacements.

The encoding used is in Base 64.

Example 1

### Even Shaman - Standard Meta Snapshot - May 18, 2018
# Class: Shaman
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raven
#
# 1x (2) Acidic Swamp Ooze
# 2x (2) Dire Wolf Alpha
# 2x (2) Earthen Might
# 2x (2) Flametongue Totem
# 2x (2) Knife Juggler
# 2x (2) Murkspark Eel
# 2x (2) Primalfin Totem
# 2x (2) Vicious Scalehide
# 2x (4) Corpsetaker
# 2x (4) Hex
# 2x (4) Saronite Chain Gang
# 2x (6) Argent Commander
# 1x (6) Fire Elemental
# 1x (6) Genn Greymane
# 1x (8) Al'Akir the Windlord
# 1x (8) Hagatha the Witch
# 1x (8) The Lich King
# 2x (10) Sea Giant
#
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

Example 2

### control
# Class: Mage
# Format: Wild
#
# 2x (1) Arcane Artificer
# 1x (2) Acidic Swamp Ooze
# 2x (2) Plated Beetle
# 2x (2) Raven Familiar
# 1x (3) Acolyte of Pain
# 2x (3) Stonehill Defender
# 2x (3) Voodoo Doll
# 2x (4) Arcane Keysmith
# 2x (4) Polymorph
# 2x (5) Dragon's Fury
# 2x (5) Rotten Applebaum
# 2x (6) Blizzard
# 2x (6) Meteor
# 1x (6) Skulking Geist
# 1x (7) Baron Geddon
# 1x (7) Flamestrike
# 1x (8) Sindragosa
# 1x (8) The Lich King
# 1x (9) Frost Lich Jaina
#
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

Deck Replacement

Rather than 'pasting' via the 'new deck' button, you can replace an open deck with one in your clipboard by ALT-TABing out of and back into the Hearthstone client with the deck page open.

Trivia

• Because of the high demand for deck sharing in the community, third-party applications arose from companies which offer Deck importing and Deck tracking.
  • These applications work by hooking into the Unity engine's working space, and most of them are doing it when the user enters the Play menu.

Patch changes

Patch 8.2.0.19506 (2017-06-01) Added.